Display tray blank and container



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Sept. 9, 1958 R. A. SAMSING DISPLAY TRAY BLANK AND CONTAINER V 2Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed April 4. 1955 Fig.9

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ROLF A. SAMSING ATTORNEYS United States Patent DISPLAY TRAY BLANK ANDCONTAINER Rolf A. Samsing, Braintree, Mass.

Application April 4, 1955, Serial No. 498,868

Claims. (Cl. 229-23) This invention relates to a novel display trayblank and container in which two independent blanks are constructed tocooperate in superposed relation to form a novel tray container adaptedto house and display goods for sale. Each blank comprises a paperboardsheet folded at opposite marginal edges to form tubular frame units andis so constructed that the two blanks in superposed relation provide aninner panel for supporting and displaying the goods and a marginal framethereabout formed by the combined tubular frame units.

The blanks are constructed and folded to flat form convenient forstacking and from which they can be readily raised and assembled. In theassembled relation one panel is superposed over the other panel andprovides an inner support forthe goods and the four tubular frame unitsunite at their ends to provide an enclosing frame. Furthermore, thetubular frame units are so constructed that they are normally drawntoward each other to firmly and resiliently engage and support the unitsin cooperating frame forming relation at their ends. The production of"a novel display tray blank and container of this nature as hereinaftermore specifically described comprises the primary object of theinvention.

These and other features of the invention will be more readilyunderstood and appreciated from the following detailed description of apreferred embodiment thereof, selected for purposes of illustration andshown in the accompanying drawings in which- Fig. l is a plan view of aformed paperboard sheet for one of the blanks,

Fig. 2 is a view of the sheet folded into a blank,

Fig. 3 is an end view of the folded blank,

Fig. 4 is a plan view of a formed paperboard sheet for the companionblank,

Fig. 5 is a view of this sheet folded into a blank,

Fig. 6 is an end view of this folded blank,

Fig. 7 is a perspective view illustrating the assembling of the twoblanks,

Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the assembled tray,

Fig. 9 is a sectional view taken on line 9-9 of Fig. 8 and Fig. 10 is asectional view taken on line 10--10 of Fig. 8.

The paperboard sheet 10 comprises a panel 12 and two like end portions1415 scored at 16 and cut out U shaped at 17. The end portions arefolded downwardly on the score lines to the flat tubular form 18 shownin Figs. 2 and 3 and the terminal ends are adhesively aifixed to thebottom face of the sheet. During such folding step the cuts 17automatically result in tabs 19 projecting outwardly from the foldedblank. The anchored terminal ends 15 normally hold the folds in theposition illustrated in Fig. 3 and from which position they can bepivoted upwardly about the innermost score lines 16 to form the tubularframe units shown in broken lines.

The paperboard sheet 20 comprises a panel 22 and two like end portionsscored at 23 to provide panels 24, 25, 26 and 27, the ends of the panelsbeing miter cut at 28. The end portions are folded upwardly on the scorelines to the flat tubular form shown in Figs. 5 and 6 and the terminalends 27 are adhesively affixed to the top face of the panel 22 adjacentto the panel 24. The anchored terminal ends 27 normally hold the folds30 in the flat position illustrated and from which position they can beopened to form the tubular frame units shown in broken lines in Fig. 6.

The flat folded blanks 21 and 32 can be conveniently handled, shippedand stored in compact stacked relation and each pair of folded blankscan be conveniently assembled to form the tray container shown in Fig.8. In assembling the blanks, the folds 18 of the blank 21 are movedabout the score lines to the position illustrated in broken lines inFig. 3; the folds 30 of the blank 32 are moved outwardly to the positionillustrated in broken lines in Fig. 6; and the panel 12 is superposedover the panel 22 as illustrated in Fig. 7. The ends of the frame units18 are then inserted within the open ends of the units 30 to form theframe shown in Fig. 8.

The panel 12 is of a width to fit between the frame units 38 and theadhesively bonded units normally tend to move inwardly to the fiatposition, thereby resiliently gripping the blank 21 therebetween. Theunits 18 normally tend to return to the flat position and when moved tothe broken line position of Fig. 3 with the panel 12 supported insuperposed position on the panel 22 the bonded relation of the terminalends 15 to the panel 12 causes the units normally to move toward eachother as illustrated in broken lines in Fig. 3 and to grip the units 30therebetween at the junction ends thereof. In this relation the lockingtabs 19 extend inwardly of and into interlocking engagement with theunits 30 at their ends, thus locating and supporting the frame units attheir junctions. Particular attention is called to the engagement of thetabs in opposed relation against the inner wall of the frame units 30,as clearly illustrated in Fig. 9, by which the tabs support the units 30against lateral collapsing movement. The panel ends 25 of the frameunits 30 are miter cut at 28 and cooperate with the units 18 to form themiter-like corner joints shown in Fig. 8.

It will be noted that the panel 22 forms the outside bottom wall of thetray and the panel 12 forms the inner bottom wall. Thus the panel 12serves as an anchoring platform for products adapted to be mountedthereon. The top panel face 12 of the folded blank 21 is unobstructedand is adapted to receive directly thereon the product to be packaged.For example, the pin 34 can be mounted on the panel 12 of the foldedblank 21 and the blank can thereafter be assembled with a blank 32. Thusthe product is completely anchored and housed within the outside bottomwall 22. The assembling of the two blanks is a convenient machineoperation and the preloading of the product on the blank 21 togetherwith the automatic assembling of the two blanks greatly facilitates andreduces the cost of packaging the product.

When the product and blanks have been assembled, as in Fig. 8, thepackage will ordinarily be cellophane wrapped and it will be noted thatthe package has no breaks or projections to interfere with or detractfrom the wrapping. As thus wrapped, the product is securely anchoredcentrally of the panel 12 and is beautifully displayed within thepicture frame 1830. After removing the cellophane wrapper, the packagecan be conveniently opened merely by pulling outwardly on the frameunits 18.

In some cases it may be desirable to provide supplementary side walls onthe panel 12 and I have illustrated such walls 36 in broken lines inFig. 1. In such case these walls will fold inwardly about score lines,when assembling the folded blank 21 on the blank 32, and rest PatentedSept. 9, 1958 3 against the tubular frame units 30 as illustrated inbroken lines in Fig. 9.

Having thus disclosed my invention what I claim as new... and desire.to, .secure-rbycLetters :Patent is? 1. A displaycontainer.-;.-comprisingctwo paperboard sheets. each having. .a,rectangular: bottom forming panel intermediately. between-two: end:portions; of w the 1 sheet, I thetwo panels.being;ofcorresponding-.sizeand shape and. superposed onehonitheother andsaid.end portions each:

beingformedin'to. tubular. configuration with the terminal end thereofadhesively bonded to a face. of its sheet along the adjacentmarginhof.itspanel, said two end portions of one panel extending outwardly beyondthe side. margins of thepaneland-the tubular-elements formed therefromoverlapping the ends of the tubular. elements formed from the.-twoendportions oftheotherpanel, said end portions eachxbeingintegralwithits-panelzalong a junction line therebetween andtheopposingtubularelements of eachypanel beingcheld inwardly towardeach other andinvresilent contact withthe tubular elements of the other panelbytheattachment thereof to their panel; thus forming a rectangular.frame about the panels when the panels are superposed one .on the other.

2. The display traycontainer defined in claim 1 plus two spacedlockingtabs integral with each tubular end portion of one, ofthe sheets, saidtabs at the two ends of the sheet panel. extending toward. each otherand disposed within the open ends of the tubular end portions of theother sheet and in opposed contact with side Walls thereof, therebysupporting the tubular frame units of said other sheet against lateralcollapsing movement.

3. The. display. traycontainer defined in claim 1 in which each of saidend portions is folded on spaced 4 parallel linesextendinglongitudinally of its frame unit and is movable about saidlines to and from a flat collapsed position and an open, tubularposition.

4. The display tray container defined in claim 3 in which the terminalends of said end portions of one panel are adhesively fixed to the topface of its panel along opposite margins thereof and normally .hold thetubular folds of said portions inwardly toward each other insubstantially collapsed position' on the panel.

5. The display tray container defined in claim 4 in which said one panelis the bottom panel of the tray, the terminal end of each end-portionof' the other panel-being adhesively affixed to the bottom face of theother end thereof and each such end 'portion-being'folded on spacedparallel lines to collapsed tubular form against the bottorn face of thepanel, said tubular end portions being pivotally movable about theirjunctions with the ends of thepanel .to a position cooperating-with thetubular-end portions of the-bottom sheet to form saidrectangular frameabout the panels when the top panel is super-'- posed on the bottompanel.

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